Still in our series of articles about web vulnerabilities, this 6th episode is about Sensitive Data Exposure.
As usual, we won’t dive into the highly technical details here (this would require several pages) and won’t therefore discuss cryptography.
This type of vulnerability is ranked number 6 on the OWASP Top 10 2013. These vulnerabilities are usually quite difficult to exploit by hackers, but the impact being really severe, it is very important to properly understand them and make appropriate choices in the application architecture.